The Venomous Back Rub?!?!

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Casual Devotion Goodstuff Multiplayer Reanimator

Makyran

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x High Market
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Instant (8)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (20)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Dusk Urchins
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 1x Kulrath Knight
• 1x Merciless Javelineer
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Skinrender
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul Snuffers
• 1x Viscera Seer

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Incremental Blight
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Crumbling Ashes
• 1x Everlasting Torment
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Warstorm Surge

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Core Prowler
• 1x Goblin Spymaster
• 1x Harbinger of Night
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Soul-Scar Mage
• 1x Varchild's War-Riders

Artifact (4)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Prismatic Lens

Instant (12)

• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Puncture Blast
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Terminate

Land (1)

• 1x Rocky Tar Pit

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Fists of the Demigod
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Zombie Infestation

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Description is a bit outdated, as some of the comboes are not present anymore. However, I will leave it here until I rewrite it!

The Scorpion God is a dream come true for me. I have always wanted to do something with Kulrath Knight and the old cool -1/-1 counter cards from Shdadowmoor and Eventide. As commander is the only format I play these days, it seemed I would never find a reason to dig out these sweet cards again. Hour of devestation has answered my plea however, and so I hurriedly started creating this decklist when he was revealed! Added some old janky comboes I found a while back like Insidious Dreams + Reforge the Soul and Balthor the Defiled + Flayer of the Hatebound or Gray Merchant of Asphodel and started filling in the -1/-1 package. The idea is to draw a bunch of cards with -1/-1 shenanigans, outvalue your opponents and wheel/Insidious Dreams to enable a great Balthor the Defiled turn or use other graveyard shenanigans like Necroskitter or Sepulchral Primordial to slam down on your opponents. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is also in here, as he is utterly hillarious with The Scorpion God. If you can't find a way to win through these means, Blowfly Infestation + Nest of Scarabs infinites, if I understand the interaction correctly, and you could draw your entire deck from them. I'm looking forward to unleashing The Scorpion God, pestilence of value upon my foes!

I'm still working on this, hence the huge maybeboard. Suggetions and help is welcome! :D

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.15
Tokens	Construct 1/1 C Token w/ Defender, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	My commander decks, Ideas, Scoropin God edh